Two types of jawed fish arose around 450 million years ago — and both make an appearance at the Chongqing site. The new site is remarkable for its diversity of osteichthyans, bony jawed fishes ...

The team describes another species of extinct jawed fish (Qianodus duplicis or Q. duplicis) published in a separate study in Nature. This species is also about 439 million years old, ...

Millions of years ago, these jawed fish crawled out of the seas and paved the way for the vertebrates we see on land today. See what these ancient creatures looked like, according to scientists.

A team recently figured out certain aspects of the trajectory associated with synovial joints, stated Science Daily. Findings regarding this discovery have been published in PLOS Biology.  Synovial ...

If jawed fish have synovial joints in common with all jawed vertebrates, including us, it must have evolved in our shared ancestor. Something fishy in our past.

Synovial joints were present in the common ancestor of jawed fish but lacking in jawless fish. PLOS Biology , 2025; 23 (2): e3002990 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002990 Cite This Page : ...

The newfound species dates back to the Silurian period, between 443.8 million and 419.2 million years ago, and is around 15 million years older than the oldest known jawed fish, making it the ...

Scientists have discovered the world’s oldest heart in a 380 million-year-old fossil of a jawed fish. Researchers from Curtin University in Australia found the “beautifully preserved” heart ...

380m-year-old ‘beautifully preserved’ fish heart is oldest ever found The discovery could shed light on how creatures, including humans, evolved, researchers say. Nilima Marshall ...

The efficient architecture of our joints, which allows our skeletons to be flexible and sturdy, originated among our most ancient jawed fish ancestors, according to a study published in the open ...